My Books & Collaborations

Explore my diverse collection of children's, young adult and adult literature.
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The Village of Zos has a dragon problem. The villagers need all their wisdom to overcome threats from above and from within. A milkmaid, a princess, a wise woman, and a dentist face off with an ancient dragon to rescue the village from attacks within and without.

Launched August 2024, this work was written collaboratively by Patricia L. Atchison, Bonny Beswick, Isabel Cave, Abby Duncan, Kelly Komm, Kathleen Ladislaus, Alison McBain, Robert Proudfoot, Halli Reid, and Mafalda Rose following a Lintusen Press workshop at When Words Collide Writers' Conference in Calgary, Alberta 2023.

Today I Am… An Empowering Journal
Back To Self

By Patricia L. Atchison
ISBN: 978-0-9783369-5-0
204 Pages ~ Adult Non-Fiction - Self Help
WoodLily Publishers ~ 2019

When life’s journey causes one to end up lost and unable to define who they are, it’s time for a change. Discover renewed self-confidence, improved self-esteem, increased happiness, joy, and simple gratitude through the practices and quotes inside this journal. Become aware of the world surrounding ‘YOU’ at the moment. Learn how to view each ‘TODAY’ with new promise, gratitude, positivity, light, and love.

Do you feel lost, wondering who you are, or once were? Are you struggling to find more JOY in your life? Create space in your life’s journey to fill your heart with love for yourself, and get to know you again!

Today I Am… An Empowering Journal Back To Self, features many creative daily practices, including 365 days of gratitude, to help you find your way back to who you once were.

The Book of Emotions: Or how it feels to feel

Curated by Anna Linder
ISBN: 978-9-1639869-0-1
318 Pages ~ Adult Non-Fiction - Self Help
Publisher: Anna Linder; 1st edition (Sept. 27 2018)

The Book of Emotions: Or how it feels to feel, was designed and compiled in 2018, by graphic designer, Anna Linder. She created the idea of an emotional directory and invited authors to participate in the, ‘how it feels to feel’, project by submitting works that reflected a journey of the definition of what an emotion felt like to them.

Fifteen writers open-heartedly share their experiences and perspectives on anger, freedom, support, vulnerability, hope, shame, peace, fear, joy, grief, courage, homecoming, and the language of emotions. This is not about how and why we lose our feelings. This is an invitation to relearn, reconnect, and recognize our feelings. The Book of Emotions is a guide back to your true self.

Patricia answered the call and submitted articles about the emotions of Support, Peace, Fear, Joy, and Courage, believing the book would be a great resource for those struggling with different emotions during difficult times in their lives. Patricia explains, “It took courage to delve into how I felt each emotion as I journeyed into past conflicts, joys, and triumphs throughout my life.”

Little Blue Penguin

McKenzie's Frosty Surprise

Written by Patricia L. Atchison
Illustrated by Jo-Anne Jagers

When McKenzie, a Mallard duck, decides to stay at the marsh rather than fly south with his family, he encounters a frosty situation. Will help arrive in time for McKenzie to migrate? Meet Frederick, a Northern Leopard Frog, and the Chinook wind as a breezy attempt is made to save McKenzie from being trapped in the ice.

Hardcover Book:
Pages: 32, Trim Size: 8″ x 8″ x 1/4″
Colour illustrations throughout.
Audience: JUV Age Range: 04 – 08
Language: English
Published: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9783369-2-9

Written by Patricia L. Atchison
Illustrated by Jo-Anne Jagers

Little Blue Penguin’s emotions shine colourfully when a journey from the toy store takes him to a new home and into a playmate’s arms. His world is happy and loving until an outing at the zoo finds him lost and alone. What colour will Little Blue Penguin shine now?

This picture book about colours is a great read-aloud book to help children learn their colours. It achieved finalist status in The Word Guild’s 2008 Canadian Christian Writing Awards!

Hardcover Book:
Pages: 32, Trim Size: 8″ x 8″ x 1/4″
Colour illustrations throughout.
JUV Age Range: 02 – 05
Language: English
Published: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-9783369-1-2

How To Write For Children, An Easy Three Step Guide To Writing Children’s Books

Written by Patricia L. Atchison

If you have an idea for a children’s book and don’t know what to do next, then this book is for you!

How To Write For Children is an easy three-step guide that will teach you how to take your story from an idea to a completed project ready for publishing.

• Step one helps you with the basics of beginning your project.

• Step two guides you through the writing process.

• Step three helps you in the completion of your project. You will also learn the all-important information on publisher submission formats.

  
  Available in E-book format only.

ISBN: 978-1-989-64244-3
143 Pages ~ Adult Fiction
Lintusen Press ~ 2024

The Dragon Problem

Written by Patricia L. Atchison
Illustrated by: The Seeding Readers Crew
ISBN: 978-1-0693153-0-4
36 Pages ~ Children's Picture Book
Published by Jenny Dale Designs on behalf of Calgary Reads Big Book Sale ~ 2025

Tyler doesn’t share the same excitement as his older siblings about stepping onto the book bus. Once inside, though, he discovers the enchantment of reading when he meets woodland friends, soars with a mighty dragon, and boards a train that chugs over a steep, rugged mountain. Imagination, along with a little book magic, fills every page.

Patricia Atchison's enchanting tale, brought to life with vibrant illustrations by The Seeding Readers Crew, will inspire every child to find the magic within their imagination when opening and reading a book.

Book Bus Magic

Author Journey

I'm an author of Children's, Teen, and Inspirational Stories

Hailing from Central Alberta, Canada, I love to craft enchanting stories for children, and young adults, and inspirational tales for adults.

As a kid, I missed much of my childhood because of adult situations out of a little girl's control. Now I love to revisit those days and re-imagine good times by writing picture book stories for children, and fantasy and contemporary novels for middle grades and teens.

For those who love inspirational, heartfelt stories, I write those too.

I write because it's part of my soul. One time I tried quitting writing for about two weeks and lost a part of myself. Once I picked up my pen and paper and wrote again I felt whole. I write because it is who I am.

My ideas are endless. The blank screen is my canvas. My thoughts form the outline. Word choices are my palette. My fingers...
well, they type furiously one letter (brush stroke) at a time.

Why I Write

I am a person who feels deeply. I love any kind of nature and watch sunsets and sunrises with held breath, often taking pictures of them. Animals touch me in more ways than humans do. I have a deep affinity for animals, especially cats and dogs.

I believe my spirit animals are the eagle and the bear. I believe in messages from spirit, including animals and perhaps that's why I'm in the process of completing a duology that features Guardian Protector animals, nature, and universes from different worlds.

Many of my stories come during the wee hours of 3:00 and 4:30 am. I write such beautiful prose in my head during those hours. It's too bad many of those ideas never make it to paper in the same way I imagined them.

Who I Am

Let's Connect

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